From April 7 to the end of the game, be aware of your surroundings and have your water guns ready. Every year, seniors sign up outside of school to play the student-made game, “Senior Assassin.” Senior Assassin is a game played among seniors where students are assigned another student as a target, then try to shoot them with a water gun while also avoiding their own assigned assassin. Students pay to participate with the last students standing taking home the pooled prize.
Although the game usually sticks to tradition, this year, a few tweaks have been added to make it safer to play. For example, you can’t get someone out in a moving car. Most senior participants agree the game is pretty fun, but some of the incidents surrounding the attempts on targets have been unusual this year.
“Two people got in someone’s car, jumped over the person, and tried to put it in park while he was driving so they could shoot him,” senior Spencer Strong said.
While the clarification of rules was added to safely manage the game, it appears that there have been some instances of cheating.
“Let’s say you’re my target and I’d shoot you, then you’d run inside your house because if you don’t have a picture, it didn’t happen,” Strong said.
It’s also difficult to avoid the cheating “because people just don’t admit it or they lie,” senior Lina Cahn-Lopez said.
Some players have suggested that this year’s game, run by a different group of students each year, has included less order and organization, especially when it comes to people’s targets.
“We have less order; people are trying to order a purge on us [players], so you can just get anyone [you want] because people don’t like their targets,” Cahn-Lopez said.
Although the game has been chaotic and somewhat stressful, most seniors are still enjoying the competition.
“It’s fun and stressful,” Cahn-Lopez said. “The scary part is that you don’t know who has you, so you can’t hang out with anyone just to be sure.”
As the game goes on, people are getting more competitive as the number of seniors gets smaller to see who wins the cash prize. The reactions to this year’s game leave future seniors to wonder how the game will be played in the future.
